This isn't just my notion. Look to the response to a recent Pew Research Center survey across 900 industry experts, 71 per cent of whom agreed with the following statement:

"By 2020, most people won't do their work with software running on a general-purpose PC. Instead, they will work in Internet-based applications such as Google Docs, and in applications run from smartphones. Aspiring application developers will develop for smartphone vendors and companies that provide Internet-based applications, because most innovative work will be done in that domain, instead of designing applications that run on a PC operating system."

Beyond the Mac, you'll be accessing this cloud from your iPhone, iPad, iPad Pro or iPod touch. Meanwhile the processing power of those devices you carry with you will continue to improve.

On the move to the cloud, he said, "It's a transition and as such it's a period of tumult. So we need to be smarter and more vigilant. But not because we're moving from a world that's fundamentally good for us to a world that's not. We're moving [from] a world that's good for us to a world that's potentially even more good for us."

Chromoting is a rumor. Chromoting is a tiny fragment of what may not yet be fact which has slipped out from inside the Googleplex via a third-party site, and promises some exciting stuff for your future Chrome-powered netbook.

I think it is one of the bigger hints of just Apple's is going, as it seeks to converge its Mac empire with its mobile one. Mobile device will inevitably match the power and versatility of the computers which spawned them.

What is Chromoting. Nothing new in many ways -- like LogMeIn or Remote Desktop Solution, it lets Chrome OS users access your applications from within the browser.

Now, we already know Chrome OS IS a browser with applications accessed using that browser.

'Legacy PC Applications'

In a posting on a third party Chrome OS-dedicated mailing list Google software engineer, Gary Kacmarcík, revealed:

"Chrome OS will not only be [a] great platform for running modern web apps, but will also enable you to access legacy PC applications right within the browser."

As I see it, this feature will operate in a similar way to the remote access solutions already available for Mac and PC.